New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

Jeeze you know it's bad when the AA, literally the motoring lobby, is satirising the car parks

Ahhhh I just seen the account

And who elected them do anything? Bunch of wasters.

Nobody elected Shakespeare either, yes, but he has the keys to the City, and he is there to protect the economic fortunes of the City Council area, nothing else.

Please don't engage with Walter Mitty, it dirties the thread.

The right hand turn for cars on O'Connell Bridge to Eden Quay? Is that not going to make a messy area even more chaotic?

How many drivers will abide by it in reality? I wouldnt get too excited just yet.

A positive start, at least it wasn't rejected outright. I agree with others that enforcement outside of the permitted access is key. I would have thought that ANPR cameras at junctions would be a necessary adjunct to the start date. But who am I kidding?

Will be interesting to see if the doom and gloom predicted by the business (ahem car park) owners will prove correct. I very much doubt it and they may see an upswing in people actually going into town if the journey is not one where you'd need your sandwiches and flask for sitting on the bus in the congestion.

I'm disappointed it's not 24/7 but this decision is better than outright backtracking on the plan.

Agree good start and glad they held their nerve against the last ditch attempts to kill it. I hope some proper objective data can be gathered to maintain this and possibly even extend the hours beyond 7-7. As a bonus I hope it shows up the Mannix Flynns , Pat Kennys and Conor Faughnans up as the massive twats that they are

Good news for a change, barring any appeals to ABP or the High Court etc by the car park lobby. Enforcement via camera fines would make total sense, but this is Ireland after all. You could spin it as freeing up scarce Garda traffic resources to police the carnage on our roads too, very easy sell in the current climate but how never. I'll take this positive news for a start.

I could respond that if he were a friend to your agenda, he would have implemented the measures as they were presented to the City Council.

Rather, he has scaled it back to a mere tokenistic measure. An Irish solution.

As mentioned by others above, without enforcement, it'll just be ignored anyway, the same as the College Green bus gate already is.

And of course, there is the high likelihood of a judicial review challenge to the whole scheme coming from the Dublin City Centre Traders anyway, probably backed by ISME and Retail Excellence Ireland.

And so, though you would never admit it, my zealous little friend, its a hollow enough victory for you today.

Delicious petulant tears!

Can I ask why you hate the idea of less traffic choking our small and historic city centre? do you curse the Luas and Dart too? do you also hate the Port Tunnell and long for the days of 100's of artic lorries belching diesel fumes up & down the quays? just find your small minded mindset utterly bizarre and sad.

This is a tiny and much needed victory for sustainable transport in Dublin.

So the car parks won I suppose they paid off the right folks. Democracy lost, oh well. I'm looking forward to the people power response in any case.

I read it on the Dublin City Council transport plan, maybe it was the original plan and it hasn't been updated yet.

Am i wrong or will everything other than buses, taxis and cyclists be sent up O'Connell street if they drive in that far or does the restriction start before Bachelors Walk?

Don't know what the big deal is so, you can still get to almost anywhere if you travel into town between 7 and 7, it will just take a bit longer if you don't use public transport.

If it was always just going to be ignored anyway then why were you so vexed by it?

Google maps gives two routes, Along the Liffey as you would now and without the Liffey it will bring you all around the town, Highlighted Blue

This will hopefully improve public transport along the quays...but for buses that use O'Connell St Northbound, will it just add more traffic? Or is the hope traffic evaporation will sort that out

Turning left onto OCS isn't much use to the vast majority of trips so they won't do it. It's only of any use to people wanting to get to arnotts car park. The problem with that is, we're going to have 3m times half a KM of some of the busiest stretch of street in Ireland dedicated entirely to a few dozen cars heading to a private car park, while the rest of us stand on a 60cm footpath.

Yeah fair enough. Tbh O'Connell St Northbound is chaotic enough just with the Luas and Buses anyway.